A North Texas man is accused of seeking sexually-explicit photos on Snapchat from a 14-year-old Tennessee girl back in 2018.

Eric Neil Garcia, 22, of Iowa Park, is charged with causing a sexual performance by a child.

Garcia was booked into the Wichita County Jail Monday afternoon on the second-degree felony. His bail was set at $20,000, and he remained behind bars Tuesday afternoon.

Eric Neil Garcia(Photo: Wichita County Sheriff's Office)

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, signed Nov. 26, 2018:

On April 7, 2018, Iowa Park police were contacted by a man in Tennessee who claimed a man named "Eric" had been communicating with his 14-year-old daughter in a sexually-explicit manner.

The father believed the suspect, later identified through police records as Garcia, lived in Iowa Park.

The father said he found messages on his daughter's cell phone from Garcia from as early as March of 2018.

The communications between the teen and Garcia took place over Snapchat between March 28 and April 5, 2018.

Officers were provided photographs of the messages on the girl's cell phone. The evidence showed sexually-explicit conversations, including photos of her breast and photos and videos of her performing sexual acts.

There were also photos containing screenshots of an unknown man's face, as well as photos of an unknown man's erect genitals.

The father said his daughter claimed she told Garcia that she was only 14 years old during a FaceTime call that took place between the two of them.

The teen was interviewed by deputies at her local Tennessee sheriff's department on April 7, 2018.

They also received consent to search the girl's cell phone in order to conduct a forensic analysis.

According to messages sent by Garcia on March 29, 2018, he gave the girl about 24 rules she had to abide by, including several that were sexual in nature.

Another message requested the girl perform a sexual act and, throughout the messages, Garcia was attempting to convince the girl to engage in sexual conduct.

On April 7, Snap Inc. approved a preservation request to preserve the electronic communications between the accounts of the girl and Garcia.

Officers were able to review the files after obtaining a search warrant for the stored messages. The records coincided with the screenshots the father sent police.

Police also reviewed the forensic analysis results for the girl's phone, which showed photos she had saved to her cell phone of Garcia's face. The images were compared and matched his Texas-issued identification card.

On July 21, Garcia came into the Iowa Park police station to speak with officers.

After being read his rights, Garcia confirmed his social media usernames and told the officer that he met the girl through Instagram.

Garcia claimed both he and the teen engage in an online sexual role-playing group catering to a specific fetish.

He said he was unaware of the girl's age at first but also discussed a time where he had a FaceTime call with the girl where they each performed sexual acts during the video call.

Garcia claimed he had never asked the girl for photographs of her and that she was the first to send him nude images.

He told the officer that he sent the girl photos of himself in return. He alleged all photos were exchanged over Snapchat.